1. Connect both soundcardS with a midi cable. On the master computer, the cable will be connected to the midi out port, on the slave computer to the midi in port.

2. Go to the preferences of ableton live, go to the midi sync tab and find your soundcard in the midi ports section :

3. On the master check sync on the output

4. On the slave check sync on the input

Leave the midi clock on song

5. Check the "EXT" button (on the left of the tap tempo button) on the slave computer.

6. Press play on the master, the slave should follow.

If you want to sync over lan :

via wifi : use matt solution

via ethernet : you can use ipmidi (free software for mac osx), the configuration in live's preferences stay the same except that you don't check the sync button on your soundcard but right to the ipMidi entry in the list.

Is anyone else having the 'arrangement position' of the slave restart back to 1.1.1 when they start their Master timeline position anywhere past 1024.1.1 ? Or more accurately 1024.4.4

This is really confusing and messing up my ability to sync two hour-long live sets .. what am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

4 years ago|
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kaimuse

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The master/slave MIDI cable approach has worked fine in live gig situations for me and the vocalist I work with sometimes. (I bought a second little MIDI i/O box for her end which sits on a separate USB port from her soundcard, but it should be possible to use the MIDI ports present on a soundcard if it has them.) Her Ableton (for live vocal FX) is the master clock, and mine the slave, along with some hardware I use (multiport MIDI outs to them on my end) including a Tenori-on and some Kaoss Pads, all set as slaves too.. You do need to look out for looping settings, jumping to bar such-and-such, etc. and be sure to set the slave back to bar 001 first before the master presses start if you want it to start from there.

5 years ago|
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BangAndO

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@ matt.patey

Thanks for this solution that works very well.

But we still have got a problem..

We would like to use it for a Live set and we would like to know if it is possible to send the audio of the slave computer Master to the other computer ?

If you both have MIDI interfaces, the simplest way is to just set up one Live session to be the MIDI Clock Master, and the other to be MIDI Clock Slave. In Live's MIDI Preferences, make sure Sync Out and Remote Out are turned on for the Master Session, and Sync In and Remote In are turned on for the Slave Session.

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CHESCO

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Hi!!

Thanks a lot for response it was very helpful I did it and got the sync of both computer but when I hit play in the Master the BPM value of the Slave start jumping to other values! Do you know what might be going on?

just connect an audio out channel from your slave´s audio interface to an audio in of your master´s audio interface and route the input to any channel you want in your master`s liveset. Only prob might be the latency when you use them in sync while getting slaves audio back to the master. Depends on what you want to do...

4 years ago|
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